Sculpture Garden and Live Music

 Austin, TX

I found a mirror

Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

Today we walked along the Colorado River to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum.  Charles Umlauf was a local artist and the sculpture professor at UT from 1941 to 1981.  The garden is full of his works and there are a lot of birds there too so that's a plus.  It was a nice walk and it was nice using our NARM pass to get in.  Inside the Museum part there are 2 works that were "rejected" commissions.  They were the most interesting pieces in our opinion.

This is the first piece that was rejected.  The church that commissioned it said that Mary was too "Sexy" (not the exact word they used).

This was a private commission that was rejected.  Both Donna and I thought it was the most interesting piece in the collection.

The Elephant Room

Later in the evening we went to The Elephant Room for live Jazz.  They feature nightly Jazz and have a full bar.  It was a perfect evening.  

We went to the early show.  It was the perfect amount of crowdedness for us and we were the youngins there.

We were treated to this on our walk back across the bridge.  

It was a great day and we are enjoying Austin even though we are just getting going.  We took it slow the first week to rest up from our Florida trip and to greet the plumbing company 3 times.  When we arrived we noticed that the kitchen and bathroom sink trickled when turned on and the hot water in the shower didn't turn on.  We notified the host and they worked as quickly as they could to fix the issue. We got the faucets fixed on Sunday and the shower became useable on Monday and then was totally fixed on Wednesday.  We were able to work around the problems and we got a nice chunk of money refunded for our trouble.  Pro tip, if the water trickles out of the faucet remove the aerator because it is probably stuffed with pipe gunk.  It's an easy fix if that is the problem.  Now we know.

That's it for this post.  If you missed the previous post you can find it here.